Thursday, March 8, 2018, 12:14:20 AM, Woonsan Ko wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote: >> The only Eclipse plugin in reasonable state for editing FreeMarker >> templates is "FreeMarker IDE", which is part of the JBoss Tools >> project. See the top entry at >> https://freemarker.apache.org/editors.html, and also >> https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-freemarker. >> >> However, RedHat has deprecated and now removed the "FreeMarker IDE" >> plugin from JBoss Tools and Devstudio. See: >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49072160/why-is-freemarker-ide-in-eclipse-oxygen-jboss-tools-4-5-2-final-deprecated >> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-25736 >> >> So I think "FreeMarker IDE" should be brought over to the ASF, >> similarly as FreeMarker-Online was. Also the Eclipse update "site" >> should be hosted on ASF infrastructure. I have started a discussion to >> explore this possibility, and so far it seems it's fine on their side: >> >> http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jbosstools-dev/2018-March/subject.html >> >> The code is under EPL, but of course they should "contribute" the code >> the ASF where we can replace the license with ASL2, and rename the >> packages. >> >> Technically, "FreeMarker IDE" is independent of the rest of JBoss >> Tools, we only had to substitute org.jboss.tools:parent (as it's not >> in the Maven Central, it's not an acceptable dependency IMO). >> >> What do you think? Will the ASF be fine with bringing over yet another >> FreeMarker related project? Do you think it's good to do? > I don't think there's any issue by adding a *subproject* in a top > level project as many others do.
It would be like freemarker-online-tester, so it's a separate repo but controlled by the FreeMarker project. From this though we will need to do official releases (with VOTE etc.), unlike from the other "subprojects". > I found a very similar example: > - http://directory.apache.org/studio/installation-in-eclipse.html > > And, they maintain the update site at > http://directory.apache.org/studio/update. > > I guess we can do the same thing (as a subproject under FreeMarker) if > RedHat is willing to contribute. > > Regards, > > Woonsan > >> >> My opinion is that the more control we have over such products, the >> easier it is to ensure that they remain maintained and available to >> the users. >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Daniel Dekany >> > -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
